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Mistaken beliefs programmers have about gender:

- People have only one of two genders
- People will have only one gender in their entire life
- Okay, people will only have at most two genders in their entire life
- A person's pronouns can be derived from their gender
- Pronouns can be enumerated in a dropdown list
- People will not change their pronouns
- A person has pronouns
- A person has a gender

Reading through Mozillas jobs page: "Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI", "Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads", "Program Manager, AI 360", "Principal Product Manager, Generative AI","Sr Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym", "Senior Manager, Sales (Anonym)"

I see they have fully pointed the ship towards a future of AI and Ads.

The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAI

New: Snapchat is reserving the right to use your own, AI-generated likeness in ads that can then target you. The setting is on by default according to our tests 404media.co/snapchat-reserves-

Links to Tumblr blogs are as useless as links to Twitter. Both are gated behind a mandatory login.

Took my new Ortlieb Back-Roller Classic pannier bags out for a test ride.

Stopped to take a photo next to another mode of foot based transportation.

Yabba-dabba-do!!!

#biketooter #cycling

That's bold, Mozilla, given that 100% of the unwanted AI that I've had pushed on me in the past two weeks has been from you.

I need to add a lot more stuff (doors, windows, floors, roofs) to make this into a proper log cabin, but that's a solid start πŸ₯°

#indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Friends, please spend this weekend learning how to make a backup copy of your PC's hard disk. Especially if your PC is too old to know what a cloud is, let alone back up your data to one.

Guess what happened in my field work today, a Friday the Thirteenth, that prompted this reminder.

Somebody posted this with the label "The 4 types of IT guys" so I fixed it.

Flappy Bird is getting re-released

Huh. Cool, I guess.

The original creator is not involved; an unaffiliated company sniped the trademark when he failed to re-register it when it expired

Oh....

It's a trojan horse for "play-to-earn" blockchain bullshit

Sigh

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